Oligodonta florissantensis
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florissantensis. Oligodonta florissantensis Brown, 1976
Fig. 8.
Nymphalidae: Libytheinae.
USA, Colorado, Florissant; late Priabonian, late Eocene.
Depository: FFNM (holotype).
Published figures: Brown (1976: Figs 1–3); Emmel et al. (1992: Fig. 1 /2, and at back of color plate III); Kawahara (2013: Fig. 62).
For a good description and interpretation of the fossil, see Kawahara (2013).This author synonymized it with Barbarothea florissanti (see below) and placed it in the extant genus Libytheana (Nymphalidae), see description below. It was placed in the Pieridae by Brown (1976) (followed by Emmel et al. 1992), because of the unjustly supposed similarity with Leodonta. Subsequently, Braby et al. (2006) used the fossil as calibration point on the phylogenetic tree of the Pieridae as a close relative of the Catasticta group, if not the genus Leodonta.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Pieridae
- Genus
- Oligodonta
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Species
- florissantensis
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Brown, F. M. (1976) † Oligodonta florissantensis, gen. n., sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Bulletin Allyn Museum, 37, 1 - 4.
- Emmel, T. C., Minno, M. C. & Drummond, B. A. (1992) Florissant butterflies. A guide to the fossil and present-day species of central Colorado. Stanford University Press, Stanford, x + 118 pp.
- Kawahara, A. Y. (2013) Systematic revision and review of the extant and fossil snout butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Libytheinae). Zootaxa, 3631 (1), 1 - 74.
- Braby, M. F., Vila, R. & Pierce, N. E. (2006) Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea): higher classification and biogeography. Zoological Journal Linnean Society, 147, 239 - 275. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.2006.00218. x